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Alice was awarded a $2,000 scholarship by the Arkansas River Basin Water Forum for Fall 2015.

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Domestic Policy Council invited Department of Geography professor Waleed Abdalati to deliver a keynote at a citizen science forum, “Open Science and Innovation: Of the People, For the People, By the People”, on Wednesday, September 30, 2015. The forum...

The story is about a reality TV show in Tanzania that showcases women’s empowerment. Goldman’s paper, written together with Jani Little (CU-Boulder, IBS), is cited in the final paragraph of the story: "What Kibona is referring to—“empowerment”—is exceedingly difficult to define and measure. In a recent paper on NGO work...

Waleed Abdalati will co-chair a prestigious national committee charged with developing U.S. priorities for observing Earth’s atmosphere, oceans and land surfaces by satellite. Read CU News Center article.

Jennifer Balch's research featured in CU News Center

Suzanne Anderson's research featured in CU News Center

Mountains cover a quarter of the Earth's land surface and are home to about 12 percent of the global population. They are the sources of all the world's major rivers, affect regional weather patterns, provide centres of biological and cultural diversity, hold deposits of minerals, and provide both active and...

Meredith was awarded a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement (DDRI) grant by the Geography and Spatial Sciences Program. The award will support her dissertation research project titled "Geopolitical Shifts in the Geographies of Extractive Economies." For more information, see the NSF award page

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Katie was awarded a 2015-16 Community Based Research Graduate Fellowship through CU Engage . This fellowship is designed for a cohort of 3-5 PhD students.The purpose is to train a generation of scholars in the practices and principles of community-based research (CBR).